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Channel templates

Template files are used to control how the content for each channel is presented. Awasu 2.2.1 introduced a much more powerful template processor and a swag of different templates ([screenshots]). Most everything you might want to do can be done solely through the use of CSS but it is also possible to get really your hands dirty are start tweaking the template files themselves.

NOTE: If your template includes external graphic files or consists of more than one or two files, it would best packaged up as a ZIP file. Please send it to us and we'll upload it and give you a URL to link to it.

Channel reports

[Reports ]are used to re-publish feed content out of Awasu. The most common way is to add feed items to a [workpad] where you can edit them and add your comments, then assemble them together in a report and publish it.

KML: Lets you take locations embedded in your feeds and look at them in a geo-browser e.g. Google Earth or Google Maps.

MOBI: Lets you make eBook files that can be read on mobile eBook readers e.g. Amazon's Kindle and smartphones e.g. Android, iPhone, etc.

Plugin channels

Plugin channels let Awasu extract information from anywhere at all, not just a web site with a feed. They can be written in any language you like and can be as short as a dozen lines! Check out the Samples sub-directory under where you installed Awasu for lots of examples.

These are the plugin channels available for free download!

URL Monitor: Monitors one or more web pages and notifies you when they have changed.

OPML Monitor: Monitors an OPML file and notifies you when it has changed.

WebScrape: Scrapes a web page using regular expressions to generate a feed.

BBCode to HTML: Strips the BBCode out of a feed and converts it to HTML.

Channel hooks

Channel hooks are a unique feature of Awasu that transforms it into an extremely powerful information processing tool. Like plugin channels, they are small scripts (that can be written in any language) that are invoked when things happen on a channel, analyze what happened and then intelligently respond to it.

XSLT/SOAP

Awasu provides native support for using XSLT and/or SOAP to manipulate feed XML. This makes it incredibly easy to query web services and other XML-based services and convert the results into a feed that Awasu can use.

Metadata modules

Metadata modules let Awasu extract this extra embedded information out of a channel's feed XML and store it in the archive database. This information is then accessible along with all the other normal feed metadata and can be inserted in channel summary pages, reports, etc.